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Iron Age: n. In the history of computing, 1961--1971 --- the formative era of commercial {mainframe} technology, when ferrite-core {dinosaur}s ruled the earth.
The Iron Age began, ironicall...
iron box: [UNIX/Internet] n. A special environment set up to trap a {cracker} logging in over remote connections long enough to be traced.
May include a modified {shell} restricting the cracke...
Ironic isn't it, that God gave the tortoise a drag factor of 0.03.
ironmonger: [IBM] n. A hardware specialist (derogatory).
Compare {sandbender}, {polygon pusher}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
iron: n.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes froze
even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci...
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
-- Old Testament -- Proverbs xxvii, 17...
Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.
Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darken'd air.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Fatal Sisters, Line 3...
Irony: Giving father a billfold for Christmas.

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